Tag Archives: Backup

In case to got a new phone and want to move the Google Authenticator you will need to move the secrets from all the sites you added to the app. Or you are just curious what is actually being stored on your phone 🙂

Since I usually use the QR-code to create a new entry creating a backup is usually quite troublesome for me; I simply have no idea how to recreate the entries. But, its possible to download the apps database using adb. Well, that is if you have a rooted phone.

First you need to enable the adb USB-debugging somewhere in your settings. This depends on your phone, so you will need to look online on how to do it in your case.

After that you can connect using adb:

:~$adb root

The root is important since otherwise you will not have access to the app-related database files. Next we can copy the authenticator database that includes all the entries of the app.